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WebSphere Liberty

I want to vote for LIBERTY-I-74. I cannot see it to vote directly because it was submitted by an IBM employee: James Pickel <pickel@us.ibm.com> I want to easily be able to tie DB2 work in JAVA using a Type-4 driver back to a CICS transaction in Liberty.

Easier performance tuning. Easier issue resolution. Easier chargeback computations. Easier userid/password maintenance.
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Allow to change the encoding of messages.log

Our Web applcation works in the z/OS CICS Liberty environment. We see only "???" (question signs) instead correct Hebrew text in our audit and trace logs that we redirect to STDOUTR, STDERRR, STDTRCR
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Adding a Second Factor Authentication (2FA+) feature on Websphere App Server and Liberty

Various IBM tools comes with WAS or Websphere liberty embedded to the product for user authentication. These products allows to have a local user authentication or LDAP user authentication, but it did not provide any feature for a Second Factor Au...
over 8 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Custom SSL Trust Manager in Liberty

Provide support for a custom Trust Manager in Liberty that allows for certificate validation against client certificate SAN entries
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Optionally create ECDSA Certificates

Liberty supports ECC ciphers, however, ECC ciphers require an ECDSA key. Is it possible to configure Liberty to create both RSA and ECDSA keys when creating a server or when joining a collective?
over 5 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

JAX-WS opens too many SSL connections

In our application we have a client in Liberty that makes JAX-WS soap calls to a backend server, also in Liberty. We've found that when we use ssl to make the JAX-WS calls, we can easily cause the server to open over 1024 sockets simultaneously, w...
over 11 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Future consideration

Issue with Liberty WebSpear server

Hello Team, I am trying to run one webService SOAP based application using Apache CXF. I am trying to resolve the following errors, but I could not. On each restart it shows some different error. Please find all these details as below. Same applic...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Is a defect

S282 Abend when calling Liberty isAuthorized method

when calling the isAuthorized API to check the profile like below,you will see the abendProfile:AAAAA.BBBBBBB.11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111Cla...
almost 6 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Add originator IP address/port to LTPA token

If I log in to a web application running in WebSphere Liberty Profile (WLP) from one machine, I can use the generated LTPA token on another machine without logging in a second time. It would be good if the LTPA token contained information about th...
almost 9 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Client Authentication for Kafka Producer in Liberty Server

Our problem We want to run multiple java programmes (in current use case Kafka-Producers) in a single CICS Liberty Server. Authentication on Kafka-Broker side (hosted on our on-premise cloud) is done by client certificates. Our security department...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Functionality already exists